Sweet Pickles
Arwilda kept four different recipes with this title.
300-pickle crock recipe
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box 300-pickle card
Ingredients
- 300 small pickles, if possible
- 2 cups salt, put in crock.
- 4 Tbls mustard
- 4 tablespoons salt; 4 tablespoons sugar; 1/2 cup spices
Directions
- Pour cold vinegar
Temperature: cold vinegar
Equipment: crock
As written
(over)
Mrs. Lee recipe
Decorative Recipe Tin Mrs. Lee card
From Mrs. Lee.
Ingredients
- 1 gal vinegar
- ½ C grated horseradish
- ½ C ground mustard
- ½ C sugar
- 2 T alum
- 2 T cinnamon
- 1 T cloves, allspice
- 1 C salt
- 1 t sachrine
Directions
- Pour boiling water over cukes
- ↓ let stand till cold. Drain,
- Pour cold (try boiling) mixture over them and seal.
- mixture over them + seal.
Temperature: boiling water; stand till cold; Pour cold mixture; try boiling
Equipment: large water-boiling vessel; draining and drying setup; jars and closures; mixture vessel; pouring utensil
Notes
- try boiling
Pickles, overnight-soak recipe
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box Pickles card
Pickles
Ingredients
- 1 gal vinegar
- 1 cup ground horseradish
- 5 Tablespoon dry Mustard; 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon; 1 Tablespoon whole Cloves; 1 Tablespoon whole Allspice; 1/2 Tablespoon salt
- 1 '' cinnamon
- 1 '' '' Allspice
- ½ '' salt
- 1 teaspoon Alum
- 1 dram saccharin
As written
over
Untitled recipe
Ingredients
- cucumbers
Directions
- Soak Cucumbers over night in clear Water.
- In morning wipe dry and put in cans, pour over the Above.
Timing: over night; in morning
Equipment: soaking vessel, drying cloth, and cans
Sweet cuke pickles, Mam annotation
Decorative Recipe Tin Sweet cuke pickles card
Ingredients
- 1 gal. vinegar
- 12 small pieces horseradish
- 1 T ground cinnamon
- ½ T allspice
- 1 T alum
- 5 T ground mustard
- 1 t saccharine
- ½ C salt.
- small to med. cukes
Directions
- Mix all in jar & put in small to med. cukes.
- They can be put in a few each day as gathered or all at one time.
Equipment: jar
As written
Mam
Compare the cards
Vinegar, horseradish, mustard, alum, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and saccharine
- Decorative Recipe Tin Sweet cuke pickles card
- 1 gallon vinegar; 12 small pieces horseradish; 5 tablespoons ground mustard; 1 tablespoon alum; 1 tablespoon cinnamon; 1/2 tablespoon allspice; 1/2 cup salt; 1 teaspoon saccharine
- Decorative Recipe Tin Mrs. Lee card
- 1 gallon vinegar; 1/2 cup grated horseradish; 1/2 cup ground mustard; 2 tablespoons alum; 2 tablespoons cinnamon; 1 tablespoon cloves and allspice; 1 cup salt; 1 teaspoon saccharine
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box 300-pickle card
- Cold vinegar with no quantity; 4 tablespoons mustard; 2 cups initial salt plus 4 tablespoons salt; 1/2 cup mixed spices; no horseradish, alum, cinnamon, or saccharine listed
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box Pickles card
- 1 gallon vinegar; 1 cup ground horseradish; 5 tablespoons dry mustard; 1 tablespoon each cinnamon, whole cloves, and whole allspice; 1/2 tablespoon salt; 1 teaspoon alum; 1 dram saccharin
Sweetener
- Decorative Recipe Tin Sweet cuke pickles card
- 1 teaspoon saccharine; no sugar listed
- Decorative Recipe Tin Mrs. Lee card
- 1/2 cup sugar plus 1 teaspoon saccharine
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box 300-pickle card
- 4 tablespoons sugar; no saccharine listed
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box Pickles card
- 1 dram saccharin; no sugar listed
Cucumber preparation and loading
- Decorative Recipe Tin Sweet cuke pickles card
- Mix liquid in jar and add small-to-medium cucumbers a few each day as gathered or all at once
- Decorative Recipe Tin Mrs. Lee card
- Pour boiling water over cucumbers, stand until cold, drain, dry, pack in jars, cover with cold mixture with a try-boiling note, and seal
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box 300-pickle card
- Put 300 small pickles and salt in a crock and pour cold vinegar; later handling is missing
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box Pickles card
- Soak cucumbers overnight in clear water; in the morning wipe dry, put in cans, and pour over the vinegar mixture
Method
- Decorative Recipe Tin Sweet cuke pickles card
- Complete as written, but no sealing, processing, or storage endpoint is supplied
- Decorative Recipe Tin Mrs. Lee card
- The complete card's directions ends with seal
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box 300-pickle card
- Partial; the card says over and no continuation is attached
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box Pickles card
- Complete across the paired scans, but no heating, sealing, processing, or storage endpoint is supplied
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